Camp: During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes formed
encampments at the different places where they halted
(Exodus 16:13; Numbers 2:3)
The diagram here given shows the position of the different tribes and
the form of the encampment during the wanderings, according to
(Numbers 1:53; 2:2-31; 3:29,35,38; 10:13-28) The area of the camp would be in
all about 3 square miles. After the Hebrews entered Palestine, the
camps then spoken of were exclusively warlike
(Joshua 11:5,7)
(Judges 5:19,21; 7:1; 1 Samuel 29:1; 30:9) etc.
